what do you think, steve? >> i will answer your question whether this kind of thing could happen here, melissa because i think that is really the interesting dynamic. melissa: i was going to get there but let's jump there. why not? >> i do. i actually think we're very much like europe in the sense that americans, especially some of the more radicals on the left have come to regard these government benefits as human rights and if you, let's say you were to get a president romney and say that president romney came in and started to cut back on some of these welfare benefits, some retirement benefits i think you could see, remember what we saw in madison, wisconsin, people taking siege of the capital there. i think you could see that breaking out all over the place. it is a scary scenario but it could happen. the good news we're not nearly far down the path to ruin as europe is. i don't think we're anywhere close to facing their economic problems but the political ones are different. melissa: it is a two-prong qu